Dragon UH-1D Huey...

Re: Dragon UH-1D Huey...

feeds@yuku.com (Dan von Gartzen) — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:57:45 PST

MartinJQuinn wrote:
What a great tribute! Sounds ambitious, but I'm sure you'll pull it off. Thanks to all the Van Gartzen's who've served this great country - your service is appreciated!

Thanks Martin, I know I speak for all of us when I say it was our pleasure and a great opportunity to serve our fellow citizens of this great Nation.

As far as the modeling goes, yes, it's a very big project. Eric's Huey will be a monster diorama in 1/35, I should have gone with 1/72, but all the others are in 1/35 (except Dennis', a 737-800 in 1/35 wouldn't fit anywhere except the runway...LOL). So what I have in order for this project is: Myself, an MP hummer providing support for fellow MP's entering a structure (may change a bit along the way), Dennis (commercial airline pilot) will have a 1/144 Boeing 737 either taxiing or at take off...

Re: Dragon UH-1D Huey...

feeds@yuku.com (MartinJQuinn) — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:27:26 PST

What a great tribute! Sounds ambitious, but I'm sure you'll pull it off. Thanks to all the Van Gartzen's who've served this great country - your service is appreciated!

Dragon UH-1D Huey...

feeds@yuku.com (Dan von Gartzen) — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:32:38 PST

I picked up the Dragon 1/35 scale UH-1D Huey for a major project I have going. I will be doing a massive diorama type build of several models in honor of all my brothers. There are five brothers (I being the oldest), and four of us served in the military. So I am building all the vehicles we used during service in mini dioramas (not really mini given the scale). So Eric was a crew chief in Panama on the UH-1D. I will be doing his diorama in a jungle setting, having the bird coming in to pick up a few troops. Anyway, on to the initial review of the kit. 1/35 scale is a large scale for anyone looking to do a Huey up in detail. The kit comes with two pilot figures, to gunners, prepainted PE (which is very nicely done), and several versions of Vietnam era birds in the decals. I of course will have to custom make the markings for my brothers bird. The kit detail is nicely done, however, the clear plastic parts are pretty thick overall. Assembly seems straight forward, but the interior...